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Joe had one final obsession inYouseason 5 , but she call on out not to be who he thought she was . Bronte ( played by Madeline Brewer ) was first introduced to audiences in Mooney ’s bookstore , where Joe find she had broken in . He was at once struck by the woman , who was distinctly intelligent and possessed a mysterious passion for literature — just Joe ’s variety of girl . If this was n’t enough to make Bronte Joe ’s new infantile fixation , her complicated story with an scurrilous ex-husband - boyfriend pushedYou ’s sequent murderer over the edge . She was a cagy but tormented intellectual for Joe to protect .

Joe is deeply attract to vulnerable cleaning woman , but we all know that he always turns on them in the death . It seemed as if Bronte would ineluctably end up being anotherJoe ’s victims , since it was only a matter of sentence before he behaved violently , shew his dependable colors . This here and now seemed to come inYouseason 5when Bronte broke thing off with Joe and left the city to meet up with her abusive ex , Clayton . Joe followed her , and when he saw Clayton getting rough with Bronte , he jumped out and murdered the man . However , when Bronte ’s acquaintance appear with tv camera , Joe realized his new love had lied to him .

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Why Bronte Lies To Joe About Her Name & Identity In You Season 5

Bronte’s Real Name Is Louise Flannery

Joe learned middling early on inYouseason 5 that Bronte ’s name was n’t really Bronte . This was pretty obvious , sinceCharlotte Brontë is the famed author of the 1847 novelJane Eyre . It was initially implied that Bronte , who was actually Louise Flannery , had take on the name when she move to New York City hoping to become a playwright . However , after Clayton ’s death , Youseason 5 disclose that Bronte had get along to New York years before she had secern Joe — she had been a scholarly person at Brown University alongside Guinevere Beck .

AfterBronte con about Beck ’s execution , she read her sure-enough friend ’s posthumously bring out book and noticed inconsistency . It had n’t been entirely written by Beck , and this fact led Bronte on a recondite honkytonk into the case . She ultimately came to the conclusion that Beck ’s old beau , Joe Goldberg , had something to do with it . Her purpose in moving back to New York was to catfish Joe and shape whether he had murdered not only Beckbut all the other people who had cryptically died or disappeared around him . However , Bronte was n’t the only someone in on the artifice .

Bronte’s Catfishing Plan Is Part Of A Larger Scheme To Expose Joe Goldberg

Bronte Made Friends Who Also Wanted To Take Joe Down

Bronte did n’t begin her mission to take on Joe Goldberg alone . Youseason 5 revealed that , while expect for information on Joe and Beck on the net , she retrieve a group of same - given individuals on Reddit discussing the suspicious circumstances surrounding these characters . Bronte share what she eff , and she quickly became friends with Clayton , Phoenix , and Dominique , each of whom had come to the same conclusion that there was something strange about the " prince charming " Joe Goldberg . Together , they all do work on a plan to expose him as a serial orca .

Joe Goldberg is surrounded by a host of newfangled fictitious character ( and possible victims ) in You season 5 , so let ’s take a look at the gifted new stamp .

Of these internet vigilantes , Clayton and Bronte had the most reasonableness to want Joe put away . Clayton was the son of Dr. Nicky Angevine , whom Joe successfully frame for Beck ’s murder . He was determined to prove his male parent ’s innocence , and Bronte ’s information about Joe and Beck seemed to bring him closer than ever . in the end , it was Bronte ’s idea to catfish Joe , but Clayton was the most helpful in get theYouanti - Hero of Alexandria hooked . He make believe to be Bronte ’s jerk of an x - fellow , which they all suspected would put Joe in his knight - in - shining - armor modality . Of course , Bronte and her booster were right .

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What Goes Wrong With Bronte’s Catfishing Plan In You Season 5

Bronte Was Charmed By Joe In A Way She Hadn’t Expected

Bronte and her friend sleep together that pay back so snug to Joe was grievous , but they really did n’t understand the one-half of it . Joe has always been charming inYou , and it ’s precisely this quality that has allowed him to get away with so many murders from season to time of year . Bronte had every reason to believe that Joe was a grampus , but her deep romanticistic and idealistic creative thinker began to glaze over the lines and edges . It was n’t long before she had fallen in love with Joe . A part of her knew he was dangerous , but he also did and state all the beautiful things she had always wanted to learn and feel from a man .

Bronte had every cause to believe that Joe was a killer , but her deeply romantic and idealistic head began to blur the lines and edges

Bronte falling in sexual love with Joe is why everything went wrong for her and her champion inYouseason 5 . She began to think that Clayton , Dominique , and Phoenix had lost the plot of land a second and had become blind by confederacy theories . However , Clayton would n’t admit Bronte ’s decisiveness to call the whole deception off . He used his friend as bait , experience that Joe would become jealous and potentially attempt to hurt Bronte . In the end , it was Clayton himself who got suffer . Joe murdered Bronte ’s friend in a elbow room that was , unbeknownst to him , cover in camera .

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Joe ’s reflection about the world , the hilarious and spontaneous one - liners , and his incredulous transmission line about love and lit are quite memorable .

Still , even after Joe killed Clayton inYouseason 5 , Bronte could n’t assume that the man she had fallen in love with had murdered Beck . She explicate the deception and allowed herself to be swept back up in Joe ’s appealingness . It took a public lecture with Marienne , Joe ’s previous obsession fromYouseasons 3 and 4 , for Bronte to lastly realize the truth .

After Many Speed Bumps, Bronte & Her Friends Do Succeed At The End Of You

Bronte Delivered The Perfect Justice On Joe

After talking to Marienne and finding Joe and Kate in the sting cellar of Mooney ’s , Bronte became dictated to make Joe face DoJ . She could have allow the fire to consume him , but then no one would ever know what Joe Goldberg had done . expiry was too well-fixed a penalisation forYou ’s serial murderer . So , Bronte saved Joe ’s life and once again pretended to be his devotee , accept his bloody and fairly deranged marriage proposal . When the moment was right , she pull out a accelerator pedal and got to the big interrogation . Bronte got Joe to fink to pop Beck , and endure by why he crossed out his rewrite from the deadened woman ’s Holy Scripture .

Thanks to Bronte , You came to the perfect close .

Bronte ’s rage during thisconfrontation inYouseason 5was palpable . Once Joe had confirm that he had change Beck ’s book , Bronte say , " It was n’t enough that you took her life , you had to take her f**king representative too ? " The showdown that followed this was certainly intense , but the emotion behind Bronte ’s words here is what brought her to Joe in the first place . She had gotten lost and strike many velocity bulge . However , in the ending , Bronte survived and ensured that Joe did n’t pass away , but rather faced the immense loneliness of life in prison . Thanks to Bronte , Youcame to the perfect close .

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